Adding a floating frame into Sugar
Sugar’s Single Page Architecture Sugar relies on a single page architecture (SPA) for the Sidecar framework. But when a user navigates across the Sugar application (for example, when switching to...
View ArticleSecurity changes coming in Sugar 7.8
Important security changes in Sugar 7.8 As we near the release of Sugar 7.8, we wanted to update the Sugar Developer community on a couple of important security changes that are coming in this release....
View ArticleHow to add a client idle timeout to Sugar 7.x
Here is another guest post from Shijin Krishna from BHEA Technologies. When a user logs into Sugar 7, an OAuth access token (with a 1 hour timeout by default) and a refresh token (with a 2 week timeout...
View ArticleHere are 3 new resources for developing on Sugar 7.8
You may have seen that that Sugar 7.8 has now been released! We have introduced some important platform updates in this release. Have you read the developer release notes yet? Here are three additional...
View ArticleHelpful utility functions for notifying users about inbound emails
Here is another Francesca Shiekh guest post! She is a Sugar Developer from Wolfram Research. We had the need to notify the assigned user when an email was received that was related to a Case record. To...
View ArticleHow to configure SAML SSO for Sugar
Many customers want to configure Sugar for Single Sign On (SSO). Well Sugar supports Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) so this must be easy, right? But the devil is always in the details. Each...
View ArticleHow to build Chart layouts for Sugar 7
This blog will the first in a two part series on building Charts components for Sugar 7. This post is targeted at beginner to intermediate Sugar Developers who want to learn how to build their first...
View ArticleHow to filter on related fields using Filter API
This post originally appeared on the SynoLab blog hosted by Synolia, an Elite SugarCRM Partner. Yann Bergès describes how you can use a relate filter with the Filter API. He also explores how Sugar...
View ArticleThe Pragmatic Sugar Developer
To be honest, I do not get to sling code all that often anymore. But I do spend a lot of time thinking about software even when I have no real hand (or keyboard) in creating it. I also talk to people...
View ArticleHow to build Chart Layouts for Sugar 7 – Part 2
In our last post we covered the basics of adding a custom chart layout. Today’s post will build on that example to cover some of the more advanced configurations that are possible using charts in...
View ArticleBig things happening with SugarCRM Mobile
SugarCRM recently released versions 4.1.0 and 5.0.0 of SugarCRM Mobile and version 1.2.0 of the Mobile Application Configurator Service (MACS). These releases represent a significant technology...
View ArticleUse of prepared statements in Sugar 7.9
What are Prepared Statements? Prepared Statements, also known as parameterized statements, is a database feature that allows the same or similar queries to be executed with more efficiency and greater...
View ArticleFill out the UnCon 2017 Survey!
Where will you be on September 26th at 1:00pm Pacific Time? If you are a Sugar Developer then you better be in San Francisco, the City By the Bay, at the Hilton Union Square! The annual UnCon is the...
View ArticleCustomer improves Sugar On-Site performance by 2x using CloudFlare CDN
Note from the SugarCRM team This post represents an individual customer’s experience with using CloudFlare CDN. The results are pretty exciting! But here is a word of warning. SugarCRM does not...
View ArticleUpcoming Sugar Developer classes by Sugar University
You may have noticed that we made changes to Sugar University over the past few months. We introduced new online role based learning pathways for Administrators, Developers, and Solution Architects....
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Want to make sure you are included in upcoming Developer Webinars, Newsletters, and other developer updates straight from SugarCRM? Don’t miss out. Sign up to get Sugar Developer News today!
View ArticleTriggering Advanced Workflow processes in PHP customizations
An Advanced Workflow process can only be triggered once per PHP process or HTTP request. This is intended to prevent Sugar Administrators from defining infinitely looping processes. (A real...
View ArticleUsing e-mail fields correctly in Sugar
Here is an important message from David Wheeler, a long time Software Engineer and Architect at SugarCRM, about using e-mail fields correctly. E-mail handling is core to CRM software. Almost everyone...
View ArticleHello from SugarCRM’s newest Developer Advocate!
Hey there, Sugar Developers! I’m SugarCRM’s newest Developer Advocate, and I wanted to take a moment to introduce myself. My name is Lauren Schaefer. Since getting my bachelor’s and master’s degrees...
View ArticleThe perfect way for beginners to learn about Sugar
Are you learning about Sugar for the first time? Or maybe, it has been a while, and you want to see how the Sugar platform has evolved since the Community Edition days? Watch the video below to learn...
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